Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29637200-20170811000238

Its sometimes awkward to get BP because so many people use EV and IV trained teams...

Or not.

Honestly, my team isn't EV trained but it has given me some good amounts of BP, and rating. Here are my tips to getting BP quickly without EV training

1. Pokemon As your not EV training your largely reling on one or two stats to be decent already. Also, you may not have access to the Colleseum megas and the almighty Steelix and Scizor, as well as porygon evolutions.

A good team includes using the right pokemon. One of the stronger megas, in my opinion, is mega Alakazam. This mega has large speed and special attack, making that psychic hit hard, it also learns Grass Knot and Charge beam, useul for that one dude with a gyradose. Charge beam is great for finishing pokemon for the stat increase as well. However, this won't won alone. Some pokemon are needed to work to remove Dark types and Bug types (And, to a lesser degree, ghost types). The best pokemon for removing the most predominant is Fire and Fighting, so that Blaziken /Infernape/Emboar might come in handy. Also, bring Gardevoir. It can learn some nice moves and can deal damage with a variety of types, like Fairy, Fighting (Focus Blast), Grass and Psychic. It hurts having two psyhic types but having this trio helps. Enemy greninja? Gardevoir. Scolipede? The fire/fighting. And Poison types can be filtered down onto Alakazam usually.

Other handy pokemon are like Golurk, some people don't know its typing and use Giga Inpact and Aura Sphere. You also want earthquake, and gokurk does fine. Flygon is good too. My personal team is:

1. Gardevoir 2. Beartic 3. Mega Alakazam 4. Flygon 5. Golurk 6. Excadrill

Yes, there is a massive weakness to Water here, hence why my main attackers (Gardevoir/Alakazam) have grass knot

2. Moves

Again this is limited as some TMs are hard to get, like Earthquake, yet are inportant. As I mentioned before pokemon who naturally learn it reign due to potential STAB, making it a 150 power hit, with usually good stats. Take my Golurk, for example, it has Hammer Arm, Shadow Punch, Fly and Earthquake. It can deal with most things. It also dosen't hurt to have some normal-type moves on a few pokemon.

3. Meta Pokemon

There are some pokemon who appear like mad men, these are the following:

1. Charizard 2. Lucario 3. Greninja 4. Dragon type, often salamence or Garchomp

So expect these. Metagross shows up occasionally as well, as does generic electric types.

4. Opponent

DON'T GO AROUND CHALLENGING RANDOM PEOPLE! This is important. Choose people with ratings like 100-400, and be suspicous of people in small gyms having large ratings in this range. Clicking on the player's name will give access to sending them a request. Make sure you turn spectating ON and look for Dark types. If there is one Gardevoir should be sent in, once removed let Alakazam deal damage. New playerd with 0 BP are often easy pickings, as are those in negative BP. Also bring Noguard, it makes fly spamming useless as the air stage becomes hitable. Smack down helps for this reason too.

Its a bit mixed up but eh. 